We Do Not Live in a Hologram: Reading Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil

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Wow. Um and making no progress. So great. Thanks for coming along with me on this very slow uh trip through this fine work.

But I think you can understand why particularly when you had a passage like we're going to start with today at 34 where you just go there is so much packed in here that you you just can't race through. There's no reason to race through it. Right? This is this is where you know you just want to pause.

Whole books of philosophy could be written from many of these sections not least of which is Nichzche's critique of the sermon on the mount which is a very rare and unusual critique. As I as I mentioned last time, you just don't encounter this because most people either don't want to talk about it, they want to critique some vague sense of Christianity or religiosity or belief in God. But rarely do you have someone just pick out what is often considered one of the great moral passages not just of Christianity but of the world and mock it, right? Not even he critiques it, but at the same time he is also just mocking it.

And so that so a lot could be written there. Um but no, we're moving on. And that was just a, you know, a few paragraphs or a paragraph. Uh, now we have another one.

And this is a very crucial insight that it's worth pausing, I think, at length and and pondering what he's driving at here. And so, here we go. At whatever standpoint of philosophy one may place oneself nowadays, seen from every position, the erroneousness of the world in which we think we live is the shest and most certain thing our eyes can light upon. Notice this that there is something wrong about the world in which we think we live.

Not the world we live in. Notice this is a very important distinction. It's that we find the world we think we live in to be somehow uh ...